The Worst Civillian Disaster Of WW2

[planeterotica]

Arginald Valleywater wrote:

> I think the bombing of Clydeside would dwarf this.....miles and
> miles of houses and factories burnt out....

planeterotica wrote:

The Clydeside bombings took place over several nights, whereas the Bethnal Green incident happened in seconds and was a tragic accident not actually caused by an exploding bomb/s...

[frankthring]

I think, without wishing to be pedantic, that you mean the worst British
civilian disater of World War II. I have no doubt that other citizens in
other countries (eg the Russian civilians in Leningrad and Stalingrad to
name just two) suffered far more.
The Bethnel Green incident was nonetheless a tragedy. War morale made it
necessary to hush it up.

[Dave Wells]

I agree. My wife lost 80 members of her own family during WW2 and they all lived and died in Leningrad from various causes.